How is the outline for my July travels?

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No-Zombie9567@reddit

What are you actually interested in?

This seems like you've just looked at a map and gone "those places look big, i'll go there"

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Starlover1234@reddit (OP)

Sight seeing, museums, castle wandering, visiting famous film locations from Pride and Prejudice. Just exploring a new side of the world :)

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You must be from somewhere where the most interesting thing about cities is driving through the middle of them and maybe seeing a museum or a few bars. Most of the world isn't like that and if you see things that way you'll miss out on most good things. Pick one or two nice places (not random big cities) as your central points and then pick lots of nice places to visit from an hour radius around them. You should find plenty to do easily.

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JeVousEnPrieee@reddit

Skip Birmingham unless you have a specific reason. Go to Wales, Liverpool or Newcastle instead.

If you're near Bristol also go to Bath.

Personally Glasgow isn't interesting either.

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tmr89@reddit

Nah, Manchester over Birmingham

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eric-artman@reddit

Lol choice like having diarrhoea or diarhoea 😀

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tmr89@reddit

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eric-artman@reddit

For some yes 👋

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eric-artman@reddit

Skip birmingham, do bath instead of bristol, london… up to you. If you like crowd and cues everywhere then its fine, belfast never been there but my partner was - saddest place in whole island. Galway is great, dublin have the same issues like london but less chance for being stabbed plus great pubs but you won’t get ale everywhere live music in almost every pub, glasgow i cannot say I didn’t see it.

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EarballsAgain@reddit

There's some good galleries and museums in Glasgow, it's worth a day or two if OP is into that sort of thing.

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No_Concept_3477@reddit

Just a note on Glasgow in July - the commonwealth games are scheduled from 23rd July so unless you're going to see that, I'd avoid the city honestly because it will be so busy!

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Tumeni1959@reddit

What's the attraction of either Birmingham or Bristol?

Are you driving, or taking public transport?

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ChanceHovercraft1754@reddit

If this is supposed to be for a tour of like museums or whatever it's a ok start (but then I would still expect you would want to include say Lincoln for the cathedral etc)

If this is to get a good look at the UK as a whole, it's going to feel very samey over the month, you need to instead throw in a few days at a smaller coastal town, a few days in the dales etc.

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Superspark76@reddit

You're covering a few cities and not much else. Although all the cities have their own attractions they are all pretty much the same thing. There are so many more things to see in each country.

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dartiss@reddit

This.

Wales is obviously missing here and they have fantastic scenery. But then, so does the Lake District and many other areas.

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Oster-P@reddit

I'm amazed not to see York on there

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fookreddit22@reddit

Swap Bristol for Cardiff. It's better than both Bristol and Bath

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Supergoose5000@reddit

Well. Now we're just telling fibs

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fookreddit22@reddit

Combiined

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nikhkin@reddit

I wouldn't put Birmingham as one of the must-see locations if you're trying to do a tour of the UK.

On your journey south, there are some other options you could consider:

Lake District
Peak District
York
Lincoln
Snowdonia / northern Wales in general

While you're in the region of Bristol, I'd suggest visiting Bath and the Cotswolds, or venturing into Wales for the Brecon Beacons / Bannau Brycheiniog.

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ChelseaMourning@reddit

Switch Birmingham for Manchester.

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ThunderChild247@reddit

Personally I’d recommend an additional stop in Scotland. Rather than going Glasgow to Edinburgh, I’d recommend going Glasgow to Inverness, then Inverness to Edinburgh via Aberdeen.

That’ll utilise train and bus routes, and will mean you get to see the highlands and the east coast.

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rye-ten@reddit

Try r/UKtravel, although you'll get shot down without more detail as to what to are actually interested in

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PolarLocalCallingSvc@reddit

A bit more detail would probably help. What do you want to see and do? Belfast is grant, but are you going to visit castle and giant's causeway or stick to the city sights like the titanic museum and Bobby Sands memorials?

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lem0njelly103@reddit

Swap Bristol for Bath, Birmingham for Manchester and Glasgow for anywhere in the Lake District

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PassiveTheme@reddit

Birmingham is a decent city (despite what the memes say), but there are better cities you could visit, and there's an awful lot in between Birmingham and Edinburgh that's worth visiting depending on what you want to see.

There are cities: Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, York.

There's the Lake District, the Yorkshire Dales, and other natural beauty.

You could go fossil hunting on the north Yorkshire coast.

Frankly, if you're taking a whole month, you could visit more places. You'd be best hiring a car - you might want to have separate hires for Ireland and Britain, just because returning an Irish car in London is likely to be very expensive.

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